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Best-selling mystery author Lisa Scottoline has inked a six-book deal with publisher G.P. Putnam’s Sons, leaving St. Martin’s Press. The deal, coming after Scottoline’s recent successes with novels After Anna and One Perfect Lie, will include the writer’s first domestic thriller and her first work of historical…

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth died from congestive heart failure on Tuesday in a Manhattan hospital, according to The New York Times. He was 85. Roth was born in Newark, N.J. and attended Rutgers University and later transferred to Bucknell University. After receiving an M.A. in English literature from…

The reunion of Ewan McGregor with his one-time regular collaborator, director Danny Boyle, was confirmed once more this weekend in London, as McGregor hosted a private screening of his directorial debut American Pastoral, based on the Philip Roth novel, at the tony Bulgari Hotel. Boyle then chaired a spirited Q&A for…

Here’s a look at the Philip Roth adaptation marking producer/writer James Schamus’ debut as director: An intense drama set in 1951, when young Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman; Fury, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), brilliant son of a Jewish butcher from Newark, NJ, travels to a small, conservative college in Ohio as…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment, which paid upward of $2.5 million for North American rights to former Focus Features head James Schamus’ directorial debut Indignation, has set the picture for release with Roadside Attractions. The distributor has in turn set a July 29 bow for the adaptation of the Philip R…

Al Pacino talks in the video clip below with Dominic Patten about Barry Levinson’s humor and spontaneity as a director in Pacino’s new movie, The Humbling. The film is based on a book by Philip Roth about an aging actor’s travails. This is the fourth clip from Pacino’s talk on creating The Humbling following the…

Al Pacino talks about walking the tightrope of live theater compared to shooting a film (the high wire is “painted on the floor” with filmmaking, he says). The occasion for the conversation is The Humbling, Pacino’s latest film, which is based on a Philip Roth novel and directed by Barry Levinson, from a screenplay by…

In part 2 of our Rough Cuts conversation with Al Pacino, the Oscar winner talks in the video below about the aging actor he plays in his new film, The Humbling, and his own humbling moments with Shakespeare in stage and other performances. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Philip Roth, and is directed…

In the video below, Oscar winner Al Pacino talks with Deadline’s Dominic Patten about finding and making The Humbling, his latest film. It’s based on a Philip Roth novel about an aging, suicidal actor (finally a part he can relate to, Pacino joked). The novel is highly regarded, but turning it into a movie meant…

Former Focus Features head James Schamus will make his directing debut on Indignation, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman will produce with Schamus, and Avy Eschenasy and Stefanie Azpiazu will be exec producers on a film that will shoot next summer in New York. Novel is set in 1951…

Los Angeles, CA, May 15, 2012— Academy Award-winner Fisher Stevens will direct American Pastoral for Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE). The project is based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. Screenwriter John Romano (The Lincoln Lawyer, Intolerable Cruelty)…